Jacobin Radio: Our Squeezed, Post-Recession Lives

<span>Suzi talks to Joel Jordan and then Alissa Quart, who in different ways are both looking at our squeezed post-recession lives and the fight to win or win back a decent standard of living. Longtime teacher and teacher-union strategist Joel Jordan joins us to talk about the spectacular mass strikes of the red-state teachers </span><span>—</span> and draw comparisons with the worsening conditions for teachers in California. Then, Suzi seapks with Alissa Quart about her new book, <i>Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America</i>,<i></i>which tells the stories of the financial instability <span>— </span>and downward mobility <span>—</span> of what she calls the "middle precariat": highly educated but insecure, so-called middle-class Americans who can barely afford to raise children and meet expenses.